Opioid Strategy Coordinator (HHS)

About the role

This position is responsible for coordinating the Department strategy for the response to the opioid epidemic. Activities include facilitation of the Overdose Fatality Review Team, coordination of cross-department prevention and outreach activities, harm reduction coordination, and purposeful education and communication strategy implementation. This position will work with community partners involved in community overdose prevention, education, harm reduction, treatment opportunities, and recovery support.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Department’s strategic plan development, implementation, and reporting related to utilization of Opioid Settlement funds.
• Oversee and manage activities, timelines, and processes related to programs, initiatives, and contracts funded through Opioid Settlement.
• Serve as liaison to vendors receiving Opioid Settlement funding.
• Assume a lead role facilitating and coordinating the Overdose Fatality Review Team, including developing and monitoring community recommendations.
• Cookout and conduct community outreach and prevention activities, including naloxone training and distribution.
• Establish and promote ongoing communication and partnership with healthcare, law enforcement, treatment providers, schools, non-profits, and those with lived experience to address opioid overdose prevention.
• Cookordinate the strategic implementation of cross department initiatives to prevent use and overdose in all age groups, including a specific focus on aging adults.
• Participate in initiatives that support mental health throughout the community.
• Compile, interpret and analyze community and participant data from various sources, provide programmatic evaluation and produce progress reports.
• Lead the utilization of a variety of communication platforms to promote knowledge of substance use and mental health concerns in the community.
• Establish performance metrics and evaluation frameworks to measure program outcomes.
• Contribute community health expertise to the department’s community needs assessment process, health improvement goal setting, identification of health policy and action options, program development and creation of monitoring and evaluation plans.
• Contribute to a work environment where continuous quality improvements in service and professional practice are pursued.
• Adhere to ethical and legal principles and department policy in the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination of data and information.
• Demonstrate a commitment to county safety and risk management efforts.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in public health, community health, social work or related field and documented experience and/or knowledge of substance use prevention strategies and interventions.
  • Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
  • Strong understanding of opioid overdose prevention and treatment strategies, including harm reduction required.
  • Demonstrated experience in interpreting and applying terms of settlement and applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines required.
  • Experience in performance management, strategic planning, and data driven decision making preferred.
  • Proven experience in ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals as well as ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
  • Proven experience with Word and Excel.
  • Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Valid driver’s license. Proof of minimum automobile liability insurance coverage. ICS 100, 200, and 300 within 12 months of hire.